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To: Richard Poe
Outstanding website Richard. I really appreciate your up-frontness in putting the large Free Republic link front and center. So many columnists, talk hosts etc obviously lurk here to mine the cutting edge ideas, and then pretend they don't know us in "polite company."

I am wondering about publishing conservative fiction? A quick example. Clancy (I am no fan of his writing, but a big fan of his success) simply could not get The Hunt For Red October published in New York, and eventually convinced the tiny Naval Institute Press to take a flyer with their first work of fiction.

Another route to try is that taken by John Ross, author of Unintended Consequences. He has sold about 60,000 massive hardbacks through Accurate Press, a tiny publisher of technical gun booklets.

I have written a second amendment novel set in the near future, "Enemies Foreign and Domestic," which I am self-publishing and selling only via the internet and gun magazine ads. I don't have the years to spend pleading my case with the anti-gun liberals on 5th Avenue.

Are any of the conservative publishing houses you have listed considering branching into conservative fiction? I wild note the success of the extremely badly written "Left Behind" series within the Christian conservative demographic. There is a market out there starving for good conservative fiction!

A very well written second amendment novel could also be a great success, harking back to Clancy, and his unpublishable (in New York) pro-military Hunt For Red October.

How many books have Chris Lehane (SP) and Tom Clancy sold?

18 posted on 06/04/2003 12:17:51 AM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: Travis McGee
Are any of the conservative publishing houses you have listed considering branching into conservative fiction? I wild note the success of the extremely badly written "Left Behind" series within the Christian conservative demographic. There is a market out there starving for good conservative fiction!

There is a trick to writing good "conservative fiction."

It's to not worry so much about your message--you will get it out, because you'll write about what you believe to be true and good--as it is to worry about using good technique in your craft.

33 posted on 06/04/2003 12:49:13 PM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Travis McGee
Keep me posted, if you will. My novel would never make it via vanity press, but I'm not sure about e-publishing. I haven't come across anything that looked like a real publisher rather than a scam wanting a bunch of up front money.
34 posted on 06/04/2003 12:51:53 PM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom!)
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